Our understanding of thermophile diversity is based predominantly on PCR studies of community DNA.
‘Universal’ and domain-specific rRNA gene PCR primers have historically been used for the assessment
of microbial diversity ...

South Africa commenced transition to a constitutional democracy with the adoption
of an interim constitution in 1994, followed by national elections based, for
the ﬁ rst time, on universal adult suffrage. A justiciable ...

The prominent use of international human rights law in a state’s domestic
legal system depends on the hierarchical place occupied by international
law in general, and international human rights law in particular, among
the ...

The July 31st 2013 Elections in Zimbabwe ushered in a renewed period of political
domination by ZANU(PF) and its President, Robert Mugabe. This election followed five years
of a SADC- facilitated Global Political Agreement ...

BACKGROUND: Gene expression can be employed for the discovery of prognostic gene or multigene signatures
cancer. In this study, we assessed the prognostic value of a 35-gene expression signature selected by pathway ...

Pentacycloundecylamine (PCU) derived compounds have been shown to be promising lead structures for the development of novel drug candidates aimed at a variety of neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases. Here we show for ...

Studies were conducted to investigate the influence of deposition solution composition (methanol ≤ the deposition solvent ≤ ethanol) on their physical and chemical properties that matters in the aerosol formation and ...

The South African abalone cultivation industry has developed rapidly and is now the largest producer outside Asia. With a rapid decline in wild abalone fisheries, farming now dominates the abalone export market in South ...

This study presents the results of an investigation into the impact of CACE courses for adult educators, trainers and development practitioners. The report describes how the courses affected the training practices and ...

BACKGROUND: Diabetes constitutes a significant health problem in South Africa. Early detection and good
management can prevent or delay complications, with national guidelines for diabetes treatment now available
to ...

In highly evolved culture, discourse is made up of complexes of implicit
and explicit inter-textual relations, which form the meanings for new signifiers.
Meanings for common abstract nouns are derived from the modeling ...

This paper describes two novel abstractions that help soft- ware engineers work in developing regions to align social and technical factors when building communication systems. The abstractions extend two concepts familiar ...

Seagrasses support a great diversity of epiphytic organisms and new research has
shown that non-geniculate coralline red algae are important occupiers of space on
the fronds of seagrasses. Except for a few scant records, ...

This year the SADA theme was hosted
by the University of the Western Cape
and we hope that the informative material
in the dedicated articles and
press releases have created awareness
among dental practitioners. It ...

In this article, we explore how women survivors of intimate partner violence understand
the abuse they endured and the possible link to intimate femicide. This is a qualitative study based
on a feminist poststructuralist ...

Transition has been a major focus of educational institutions. However, most of the research into student transition focuses on the challenges related the transition from high school to university. Not much emphasis has ...

In South Africa, academic dentistry is managed through joint agreements between the South African Department of Health (DoH) and each university, in a type of academic-service partnership. For this study, dental faculty ...

BACKGROUND. Interprofessional education (IPE) can be seen as the vehicle to address the health and social problems of society through collaborative
approaches. Since IPE should be facilitated by educators who are skilled ...

In seeking to disentangle themselves from the constraints of apartheid, South African
universities have immersed themselves in an identity modification process in which they not only
seek to redress the past, but also ...

BACKGROUND: The Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) has increased the number of antigens and injections
administered at one visit. There are concerns that more injections at a single immunisation visit could ...